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Wake up Childe...get that old notion of "birthright" out of your head, it's all bullgak. There are no nobles or highborns, there never were, they just MADE it that way. You MAKE life whatever you want it to be bro!

To 1/4" PVC foam!

I had to changeup the angles on the real thing



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..You'll notice I also changed the base to be longer than a single floor tile..I hope that extra 1/16" will add that extra-tough, built to last 40k feel.

Talent is something I'm lacking for Architecture Dave

and LDD, wealth and status aren't something you can choose in birth, but they are something you can change now





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yeah I noticed the extended parts on the buttress, wondered where you were going with that, but I've learn't to simply sit back and watch these days with you and scenery

You just need to know what angle to hold the pencil against the straightedge Childe

I worked as a CAD ( Microstation) drafter for a year in-between jobs..it was the most boring job I have ever had.


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..Also it helps if you can never find a damn eraser, so you can't erase, which forces you to draw the line right the first time

the scetches are very nice dave, and im interested in seeing them in the *flesh

CAD is dull no matter what, so I feel for you on that one...

haha, thats why I do illustrations in ink... you can't change it, so its start over or do it right in the first place

Loved both series

If you want flesh.....you got it...

hey dave... those sketches... well...i think you should let us in early more often on your musings... those sketches look really artful!

tho atm i´d be damned but i cant figure anything helpful ...you are doing a wonderful job all on your own^^

Childe..>My favorite things are my Prismacolor markers!! I love painting with them, but I can't draw 3D worth a damn, everything gets flat..It's different than a mini for sure!




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Thanks Vik! -It's good to have you here as always! - Cheers!


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...gah..That pic sucked...here it is with flash (I hate having to use flash- they need to invent a daylight flash for cameras!)

Never used Prismacolour markers, in general I avoid markers... I know some people who use copic markers, and because they limit the user I avoid them. I find that most people who use them tend to be limited in ability (I did say most, but not always the case, so please don't take offence as none was meant.). I do love your use of colour though dude, tis rather epic in its tonal qualities and overall pose.

..Mind you I transposed the drawing from a pic in the Art of Warhammer 40,000 book I think, not traced, but visually copied..

dude, a daylight flash is a flash that has a diffuser on it

limit? how do you mean?

I find them easier than brushes, all the colors are transparent alcohol inks..


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..no, I want it to give me a flash like it was lit by daylight bulbs

dsteingass wrote:..Mind you I transposed the drawing from a pic in the Art of Warhammer 40,000 book I think, not traced, but visually copied..

Thats how I started drawing, copying is the perfect way to gain technical skills. For perspective take life classes if your serious about doing it for more than a passing interest, I can't recommend it enough, I did it at college before uni and it was just pure awesome... except the guy who fell asleep and scratched his doodah while sleeping a mental image that will never go away... what has been seen, cannot be unseen.

I'd spend more time practicing...but I usually have an x-acto in my hand on my free time

I have done a few perspective studies...they ended up being like most of my projects, in the "I'll finish it later" pile in the corner of my brainpan, uncer a cobweb.

dsteingass wrote:limit? how do you mean?

I find them easier than brushes, all the colors are transparent alcohol inks..


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..no, I want it to give me a flash like it was lit by daylight bulbs

Diffusers kind of do if your using an SLR, but not knowing what camera you use I cant help lols


markers tend to limit by not allowing you to texture or make "marks" as you work. texturing an image is partly what makes an image and without it some images just seem to be flat. Sometimes it helps to crosshatch, line shade or even dot shade. hope that makes sense... I teach by showing rather than saying, art is such a visual thing in teaching and learning that I always feel im not representing what I mean properly lols...

either that or I feel a tool






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dsteingass wrote:I'd spend more time practicing...but I usually have an x-acto in my hand on my free time

I have done a few perspective studies...they ended up being like most of my projects, in the "I'll finish it later" pile in the corner of my brainpan, uncer a cobweb.

hahahaha, I know that one all too well... theres a Doctor Who tribute illustration I started but just never finished, as well as a ton of other gak...

OH MY GAWD Dave your correct, I have a crap load of Prismamarkers and they are the gak, they are fun to use.. although I alternate between plain old pencil sketches, to macropen drawings, and prisma-markers/pencils

Go the old school way... Dip pen and ink

damn i love doing that, at least when i have the supplies.. which i havent for the better part of a year, a mix of that and watercolors looks badass but im not that good at water colors

Soo many hobbies..soo little free time!

ANYWAYS..Back OT:

Everything fits together perfectly! (blu-tacked for photo of course)

man i always wanted to get my hands on those nice windows, and im liking this (not so)flying buttress thing, it looks cool

Watercolours doing my fracking nut in... cannot stand them tbh... most of my illustrations are a mix of acrylic, dip pen and ink, chalk, charcoal, and whatever gak is to hand

wow that is looking pretty awesome.

when i drew i used prisma's to color in but then again i was doing either graffiti or old school inspired tattoos...

i love charcoal!, painting im only recently getting involved in.. but watercolors are annoying

I'm going to shush about art gak now... as I'd rather see Daves work lols... plus for once I'm attempting to stay OT

just to be on the save side here? was that trooper done by you??? the proportions look very good...and the pose and the story is really capturing.... yep... too many interestes... far too less time... it is most vexing...

So, propaganda posters for Dave's scenics?

always need propaganda posters

I'd have to shrinky-dink it digitally lol



No Vik..I looked at a drawing, and copied it with a pencil, not traced

i traced some comics when i was a schoolboy... i even lent a big overhead machine to make me a giant cap america and a spidey for my own room back then^^ slef made posters... i shudder at the thought i used feltpens for the colors^^

the brickwork looks nice... tho i had thought you made your won bricks

the corners tho need still some work... but the design is solid! will you add tiles to the flat surfaces? like in your sketch?